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Mrs. Aylett resumed the suspended operation of cutting the leaves of her new monthly; fluttered them to be certain that none were overlooked; laid down the periodical; brushed the scattered bits of paper from her silken skirt, and retaining the paper-knife a costly toy of mother-of-pearl and silver changed her position so as to look her husband directly in the eye.
Finally, the author of craft the subtle, refined virtue bepraised by his bride-elect the devil came to his help. Mabel, like most other girls, had a dainty and fantastic taste in the matter of letter-paper and envelopes. She used none but French stationery, stamped with her monogram a curious device, wrought in two colors and at the top of each sheet stood out in bas-relief the Aylett crest.
Aylett of the lad who brought in lights. "Yes, ma'am. It's beginnin' to storm powerful!" he said, respectfully communicative. "Your master has not come?" "No, ma'am." "See that the lantern over the great gate is lighted, and that some one is ready to take his horse. And, Peter," as he was going out, "tell Thomas not to bring in supper until Mr. Aylett returns."
She was glad to see Aunt Rachel go immeasurably relieved when a musical evening was proposed by the brother and sister, seconding the motion with alacrity that called forth a pleased smile from the one, and a look of surprised inquisitiveness from the other. "You have grown more fond of instrumental music," said Mrs. Aylett, half interrogatively. "You used always to prefer vocal."
While negotiations were going on, we sailed close up to the castle of Porto Ferino, piloted by Lieutenant Aylett, that the admiral might obtain an idea of its strength.
Don't let me frighten you! now that the worst is upon me, I must be calmer presently. You were at Ridgeley, in September, a year since, when she who was then Miss Aylett" compelling himself to the articulation of the sentence that signified the later change "received her brother's command to reject me?" "I was." "He would never tell me upon what evil report his prohibition was based.
"All in the dark!" exclaimed Mrs. Aylett, at the door. "And what a stifling odor of chloroform!" Mabel got up, and drew a heavy travelling-shawl that covered Herbert's lower limbs over his arms and chest. "I will open the window!" she said, deprecatingly. A sluice of cold air rushed in, beating the blaze this way and that, puffing ashes from the hearth into the room, and eliciting from Mrs.
Sutton, and Mabel kissed her "Good-by," the others shaking hands with her, and with three or four of the Tazewell kinsmen who officiated as masters of ceremonies, and Mrs. Aylett made an impatient movement toward the front steps.
Aylett wishes me to assume the real, as well as nominal, government of the establishment" Mrs. Aylett was fond of the polysyllable as conveying better than any other term she could employ the grandeur of her position as Baroness of Ridgeley. "He insists that the servants are growing worthless and refractory under the rule of so many.
Aylett read his newspaper at one side of the centre table, and his sister employed her fingers and eyes at the other with a trifle of fancy-work -an antimacassar she was crocheting for her hostess.
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